jcc maccabi 114 S Metro August 5-10, 2007 in Houston, TX August 5-9, 2007 in Baltimore, MD* August 12-17, 2007 in Orange County, CA REMEMBERING DR. KING Ages: 13-16 as of July 31, 2007 *12-14 as of July 31, 2007 Baltimore ONLY Heschel's Legacy from page 15 jcc maccabi* August 12-17, 2007 in Dear Park, NJ Specialties include: Dance, Instrumental Music (classical, rock/pop or jazz), Theater, Visual Arts, Computer Graphics, Creative Writing, Vocal Music, Radio Broadcasting Ages: 13-18 or entering grades 8-12 Mandatory Information Meeting For Parents and all interested participants Sunday, January 21, 2007 — 5 p.m. • Jewish Community Center West Bloomfield Meet the coaches, find out about sites, try-out schedules and other important information for both the JCC Maccabi Games and JCC Maccabi ArtsFest. Boys Baseball Dance Softball Girls Basketball Girls Soccer Feb. 8 and Feb. 15 Jan. 28 Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 Jan. 24 and Jan. 30 Jan. 24 and Jan. 29 12-14 Boys Soccer* Jan. 23 and Jan. 30 Girls Volleyball Feb. 7 and Feb. 14 Table Tennis Jan. 28 12-14 Boys Basketball* Jan. 27 and Feb. 3 15-16 Boys Basketball Jan. 27 and Feb. 3 Inline Hockey Jan. 28 - Feb. 4 Swimming TBD Track TBD Bowling TBD Golf TBD Tennis TBD TBD 3-5 p.m. 8:15-10 p.m. 8:15-9:45 p.m. 7-8 p.m. 8:15-9:45 p.m. 8:15-9:45 p.m. 8:15-10 p.m. 1-3 p.m. 7-9 p.m. 7-9 p.m. 9 am Total Baseball, Wixom Dance Studio Gym Gym Inline Hockey Center Gym Gym Gym 107 B & C Gym Gym Inline Hockey Center *These are the only sports allowing 12 year olds (as of July 31). All Tryouts take place at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield unless otherwise noted. Please go to our Web site www.MaccabiDetroitorg for the most up-to-date tryout information. ;Iv.] THE CENTER Jewish Community Center of Metro Detroit D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus 6600 West Maple Road • West Bloomfield, MI 48322 www.jccdet.org 1207460 DESIGNS IN DECORATOR WOOD & LAMINATES, LTD. It Doesn't Have To Cost A Fortune... Only Look Like It! • Interior Design Service • Wall Units • Bedrooms • Dining Rooms • Home Theatre • Kitchens & Baths • offices • Woods • Formica • Stones • Lucite • Glass Lois Huron, Allied Member ASID • 248-851-69891 16 January 18 • 2007 ken opposition to the Vietnam War, which ran afoul of conservative figures at the seminary. Nevertheless, Rabbi Heschel's legacy has aged well. He is the most frequently cited rabbinic source on issues of social justice and perhaps is most widely remembered Rabbi Heschel for the arrest- ing photo of him marching beside leaders of the civil rights movement in Selma, Ala., in 1965. His influence is felt everywhere, from the National Mall in Washington, where thousands of Jews of all denominations gathered last summer to protest the atrocities unfolding in Darfur, Sudan, to the slums of the Third World, where American Jews now volunteer through groups like the American Jewish World Service, an organization whose leader was influenced by her childhood encounters with Heschel. "He was very much a person who enjoyed his Judaism and his scholarship and made a huge effort to apply it to the times in which he lived',' said AJWS President Ruth Messinger. "And that had a real impact on young and not- so-young Jews at that time. And that's something that we at AJWS continue to do." Rabbi Heschel was ahead of his time in other ways, too. He was among the first rabbis to energetically reach out to leaders of other faiths, meeting with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican in 1964 and becoming, in 1965, the first rabbi appointed to the faculty of New York's Union Theological Seminary, a liberal Christian institution. Along with Martin Buber, Rabbi Heschel is the most widely read 20th- century Jewish thinker at Christian seminaries and bible colleges. "More than any other single Jewish author, his works have been absolutely life-changing',' said Marvin Wilson, a professor of bible and theology who teaches a seminar on Heschel at Gordon College, a Christian college in Wenham, Mass. Wilson says that next to the Bible, Rabbi Heschel's God in Search of Man is the most influential work he has ever read. "For Heschel, the God of scripture is alive; he's dynamic, and he has pathos toward humanity,' Wilson said. "That, for Christians, is a very attractive con- cept, that God is the reality to come to grips with." While some argue over what was Rabbi Heschel's greatest achievement, it was his legacy of political activism, and in particular his friendship with King, that made him an icon in the Jewish community and beyond. "They were kindred spirits," said Rabbi Heschel's daughter, Susannah, a professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College. After Rabbi Heschel's death in 1972, the family was visited every Friday afternoon for years by the rabbi of a small Chasidic synagogue in Manhattan where Heschel occasionally had prayed. Susannah Heschel says her father felt at home there, as it reminded him of his childhood in Poland. It was that kind of compassion, she says, that inspired him to leave the comforts of the academy to pursue his social-justice work. "That moment, when Rabbi Cywiak came to the door, was a reminder of who my father really was',' she said. "And in a sense, that was the moment of his inner being, of his heart and his soul. And it was out of that that he went to march in Selma." [1, 7 Ethics Classes Set A two-class series on the "Ethics of Life and Death" from a Jewish perspec- tive will be held 7 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 21 and 28, at 1578 Lakeside Drive in Birmingham. Rabbi Boruch Cohen, spiritual leader of the Birmingham-Bloomfield Chai Center, will teach. The first session will cover stem cell research and related topics, such as cloning, in vitro fertilization and abor- tion. The second will cover assisted suicide, brain death and other end-of- life issues. Registration for the two-part series is $20. For information, contact (248) 203-6721 or chai-rabbi@sbcglobal.net . Kolel And Kabbalah At 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, Professor Howard N. Lupovitch will continue his seven-part Kolel Moshe lecture series at Congregation B'nai Moshe. "A History of Kabbalah — Its Uses, Misuses and Abuses" will discuss the discovery of Kabbalah by Christian scholars in Renaissance Italy and the Maharal of Prague and the Golem. Cost is $12. There is no charge for high-school students, college students, or adult learners with Kolel Moshe Passport to Torah.